where can i find cornmeal ?!

I hate to disagree with other posters, but cornmeal is actually different to what is sold as polenta in the UK, even though both are made from ground corn.

A friend of mine uses "Indian Head" (available at ethnic stores in African and Indian communities) for making cornmeal bread. Polenta is just too hard and dry (she says).

There is fine, coarse and instant polenta, so if you cannot source Indian Head or other "original" cornmeal, you can experiment with them for whatever you are making. The best place to buy any of these it is health food shops, because they have the fine and the coarse. They may even be able to offer "the real thing" for all homesick Americans! LOL!

Try a web search too. Just type in cornmeal into a UK-based search engine and you may come across web sites like http://www.americansweets.co.uk which sell products from across the pond. Good luck!

Hi, they sell in it South African shops, have a look on the internet to see if there is one near you or one that does mail order and it is called mealy meal or maize flower. The below link is to www.cruga.com and is a shop in the UK who can put food in the post to you.

http://www.cruga.com/shop/maize/categoryid/73/list/1/level/1/productid/488.aspx?sortfield=productname%2cproductname

The person above is right. Cornmeal and polenta are both made out of the same thing but polenta is coarse and cornmeal is fine ground.
Polenta will be too rough to use to make cornbread.
You can get it at Holland and barrett, they call it maize meal.

(as I said before!) :-)

I think they call it polenta over there.

I googled shopping UK cornmeal, and got this link:

http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/Shopping/… meal&SortBy=3

It appears that Tesco has it.

its called polenta or maize meal.

its polenta here
and i buy it in sainsburys